Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
  • B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
  • B65D47/20—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge
  • B65D47/24—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat
  • B65D47/241—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat the valve being opened or closed by actuating a cap-like element
  • B65D47/244—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat the valve being opened or closed by actuating a cap-like element being rotated without axial translation, whilst transmitting axial motion to an internal valve stem or valve seat

Definitions

• the invention relates to a dispensing capsule with retractable tip, for containers.
• the spout is fixed to the neck or the ring of the container, while a cap covers said spout by screwing onto the neck.
• dispensing capsules are known, also called “service capsules", which advantageously replace the simple plugs or caps to be unscrewed, said capsules remaining adjoining the container, while the opening and closing are carried out by a particular operation of the capsule.
• the dispensing capsule described in French patent 2,631,318 has already been imagined of the type comprising a cap which is mounted fixed in axial translation relative to the container, but at least one actuation part of which is rotatably mounted, and which is provided with at least one passage opening in which a nozzle provided with a product dispensing orifice is mounted movable between at least one retracted closure position and a projecting opening position, while a shutter intended to be fixed on the neck of the container is provided with a cap intended for close or release the orifice of the end piece when the latter is in the respectively retracted shutter position or projecting from the opening, the movement of the end piece being provided by means of combined pre seen thereon, in the cap and on the shutter.
• the cap and the endpiece are solid in rotation and free in translation, while the endpiece is screwed and unscrewed on the shutter so that the endpiece during its movement helical rotates at the same time as the cap.
• nism is positioned outside the neck of the container, which reduces all the more, for an acceptable external bulk, the opening diameter of said neck because of the addition of the thicknesses of the elements and therefore limits the rates of filling the container.
• the height of the tip protruding outside the cap is limited by the height of the shutter on which the tip is screwed, which makes this device unsuitable for certain uses.
• the present invention provides a capsule of the aforementioned type, but which is remarkable in that the end piece is mounted to slide but fixed in rotation in the shutter, while the combined means of the end piece and the cap are means. screwing and unscrewing respectively arranged on the outer wall of said nozzle and in an inner collar of the rotating actuating part of the cap, so that the rotation thereof in one direction or the other, causes screwing or unscrewing the end piece in the collar and therefore sliding without turning in the obtura ⁇ tor, said end piece thus being able to pass from its retracted shutter position to its position projecting from the opening or vice versa.
• the mechanism being housed inside the neck of the container, said neck necessarily has a large opening, which thus favors the filling of the container.
• the protrusion of the tip towards the outside can be significant since the mechanism which enters the neck of the container, or even into the container itself, has a height which can be greater than the outside height of the capsule. and which is in any case not limited by said external height.
• the combined means of screwing and unscrewing the cap and the end piece are such that a rotation of the rotating actuating part of said cap in a trigonometric or respectively retrograde direction while looking at it, causes a vissa ⁇ ge or respectively an unscrewing of the end piece in the collar and therefore an opening or respectively closing movement.
• the combined means of the cap and of the tip comprise a tapping or protruding means arranged in the collar and combined means arranged on the outer wall of the nozzle in the form of projecting means or respectively of a thread.
• the cap is in one piece, rotatably mounted on the neck of the container, the actuating collar being produced by an internal chimney of the cap, arranged coaxially at the opening of said cap.
• the inner chimney of the cap is split diametrically for tear-off molding.
• a tear-off mold compared to a unscrewing mold, is much less expensive and also allows higher production rates.
• the shutter has a central skirt intended to come and surround the chimney of the cap on which it can rotate, so that the chemi ⁇ born of the cap, although split, remains perfectly maintained.
• the outer wall of the end piece and the inner wall of the chimney of the cap are provided with elastic means which cooperate between them by hooking in the retracted position in order to cause an audible signal and / or a locking on opening and closing, by force passage of the means one over the other, during the translation of said endpiece .
• the cap has a fixed outer casing, the rotating part being constituted by a collar controlled by a lever which projects outwardly through a window provided in said fixed envelope.
• the combined means for sliding the end piece and the shutter are, for example, constituted by grooves or ribs arranged on the end piece and ribs or respectively grooves formed in the shutter and according to a mode of embodiment, the end piece has a tubular cylindrical part which caps the plug of the shutter, which plug is in the form of a rod, while the combined means for sliding the end piece and said shutter comprise fins arranged at the lower part of said plug-forming rod and conjugate grooves formed on the internal wall of said tubular part of the end piece.
• the invention proposes an embodiment which is remarkable in that the obturator comprises a well which extends in the neck of the container and in which the end piece slides, said well being closed at its base, but comprising lateral windows for the passage of the product, while the shape and dimensions of the end piece are such that in the retracted closing position, the external wall of the base of the end piece obtains the said windows so that said end piece and the shutter ensure a double shutter both of the opening of the capu ⁇ chon and of said shutter passage windows.
• FIG. 1 shows in axial section a capsule according to the invention, with half-cut in the open position and half-cut in the closed position,
• FIG. 2 shows in axial half-section a simple variant of FIG. 1 as regards the shape of the cap
• FIG. 3 A and 5 show half in elevation and half in axial section, the three component parts of the capsule of Figure 1, namely respectively: the capu ⁇ chon, the tip and the shutter.
• a service capsule intended to be fitted to a container 1 (bottle, tube or the like) provided with a ring or a neck 2 ( Figures 1 and 2).
• the capsule according to the invention here comprises three parts shown separately in Figures 3, 4, 5, respectively a cap 3 (Figure 3), a nozzle 4 ( Figure 4) and a shutter 5 (Figure 5).
• Figures 1 and 2 The three parts assembled together and held on the container 1 are shown in Figures 1 and 2, Figure 2 being a simple variant with regard to the shape of the cap, which is cylindrical in Figure 1 and referenced 3, while 'he is spherical in Figure 2 and referenced 3 '.
• the shutter 5, shown separately in FIG. 5, has an outer skirt 6 provided with outer teeth 7 and an end rib 8 so as to be fixed immobile on the neck 2 of the container 1, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, by means of a rib 9 and of conjugate teeth 10 arranged on said neck 2, the edge of the opening of which is overlapped by said outer skirt 6 of the shutter 5.
• the shutter 5 also has a central well 11 which extends in leaktight manner in the opening of the neck 2 and in the container 1 and which extends opposite by a cylindrical skirt 12.
• the well 11 is closed at its base but laterally has passage windows 13 for the product contained in the container 1, while the said obturator has in its central part a rod 14 intended to form a plug, as will be explained below.
• the cap 3 is mounted on the shutter 5 in a fixed manner in axial translation but free in rotation, for example here by means of a rib 15 which is forced to be housed under the end edge of the skirt 6 of said shutter.
• the cap 3 is provided with an opening 16 on the top, intended to allow the cylindrical end 17 of the end piece 4 to pass, said end being provided with an orifice 18 for dispensing the product.
• the endpiece 4 is tubular and has a cylindrical base 19 of larger diameter than its abovementioned cylindrical end portion 17 and which is slidably mounted in the well 11 of the shutter 5.
• said shutter has (FIGS. 1 and 5) ribs or fins 20 arranged on the lower part of its plug-forming rod 14 (for example two diametral fins) and intended to cooperate with conjugated grooves or grooves 21 provided inside the cylindrical base 19 of said nozzle ( Figures 1 and 4).
• the cylindrical part 19 of the latter comprises elements in relief, such as lugs or, as here, thread portions 22 ( Figures 1 and 4) intended to cooperate with a thread 23 formed on the inner wall of a chimney 24 disposed in the cap 3, coaxially with its opening 16 ( Figures 1 and 3).
• the dimensions and shapes of the elements are such that in the closed position (left parts of FIGS. 1 and 2), the end 17 of the end piece 4 is housed in the opening 16 of the cap 3 and arrives at the level from above the latter, while the thinned end of the rod 14 closes the orifice 18 of the end piece 4, and the base of the cylindrical part 19 of said end piece closes the windows 13 of the well 11 of the shutter 5 .
• the cap 3 has support elements 27 which come into contact with the shutter 5 and that, in particular to improve the seal, the end of the rod 14 is frustoconical, the opening 16 of the cap 3 is bordered by a small internal skirt 28, just as the base of well 11 is provided with a crown 29 which is housed when closed in part 19 of end piece 4.
• a pitch is chosen for the screwing means such as a rotation in the trigonometric or retrograde direction of the cap 3, looking at the latter, causes the screw to be screwed or unscrewed and therefore the opening or closing of the capsule.
• the screwing means 22, 23 of the end piece 4 and of the chimney 24 can obviously be reversed (female thread on the end piece and lugs or male thread in the chimney).
• the fins 20 and the grooves 21 can of course, on the contrary, be provided respectively in the end piece and in the shutter.
• the cap 3 could be in two parts, namely a fixed casing and a collar rotating in engagement with the end piece and actuated from the outside by a lever passing through a window of said fixed casing.

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